Theresa May’s Tory Government have no Brexit plan, are riven by division and swamped by the work needed to leave the EU.

That was a damning assessment of a memo leaked as ministers arrived for a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street yesterday.

The SNP last night accused the Prime Minister of presiding over “utter confusion and chaos” after thebombshell paper claimed she could need to hire 30,000 extra civil servants to keep up.

The dossier, prepared for the Cabinet Office, says Whitehall is working on more than 500 Brexit-related projects “which are well beyond the capacity and capability of government to execute quickly”.

And it suggests splits in May’s top team are delaying the Government’s ability to agree a negotiating strategy ahead of the aim to trigger Article 50 by April next year.

Titled Brexit Update, it criticises May for “drawing in decisions and details to settle matters herself”.

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And it warns that big companies will “point a gun at the Government’s head” after Nissan were given assurances about trading conditions once Britain leaves the EU.

The SNP’s Europe spokesman Stephen Gethins said: “This leaked memo offers a staggering insight into the utter confusion and chaos which dominate the shambolic Tory party right to the very top with the Prime Minister.

“Theresa May can no longer expect to blindly push the UK to the brink with clouded rhetoric on the Tories’ ideological pursuing of a hard-right Brexit.

“It really is a tale of two governments – while the Scottish Government are setting out a realistic vision to protect jobs and the economy in the aftermath of the EU referendum, we are seeing the full extent of theshambles at the heart of the UK Government beset with infighting over their plans – or rather lack of plans – on the future of our relationship with Europe.”

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Theresa May (centre) holds her court at her first Cabinet meeting (Image: REUTERS/Dan Kitwood/Pool)

The Government yesterday tried to distance themselves from the paper, which was prepared by an unnamed consultant.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: “I don’t know where this comes from. This is not a report we’ve commissioned, it’s not a report we’ve seen, it’s not something we recognise.”

And May’s official spokeswoman called it an “unsolicited document, not commissioned by the Government or distributed widely across government”.

She added that someone from the accountancy firm Deloitte had produced it and “the individual is not working for the Cabinet Office on this”.

The document also identifies cabinet splits between Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox on one side, and Chancellor Philip Hammond and Business Secretary Greg Clark on the other.

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It says: “Every department has developed a ‘bottom-up’ plan of what the impact of Brexit could be – and its plan to cope with the ‘worst case’.

“Although necessary, this falls considerably short of having a ‘government plan for Brexit’ because it has no prioritisation and no link to the overall negotiation strategy.”

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It said the Government could take another six months to decide what their priorities are, adding: “Despite extended debate among (department) permanent secretaries, no common strategy has emerged.

“It is likely the senior ranks in the civil service will feel compelled to present potential high level plan(s) to avoid further drift.”

But May did receive a boost to her plan to trigger Article 50 by April, with Labour yesterday pledging not to block it. In a speech in London, Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: “We must not try to re-fight the referendum or push for a second vote. If Article 50 needs to be triggered in Parliament, we will not seek to block or delay it.

“To do so would put Labour against the majority will of the British people.”